Meaning and Action: A Critical History of Pragmatism

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Hackett Publishing, 1 gen 1981 - 616 pagine

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Subject and Intentions
3
Part
9
The Cartesian Revolution
17
CHAPTER TWO Responses to the Problem
27
Kants Critical Synthesis of Science and Values
36
INTRODUCTION
69
CHAPTER
79
68
99
CHAPTER FOUR Italy 76 Papini Prezzolini Vailati and Calderoni
324
Summary
345
Part Four SOME PRAGMATIC CONSEQUENCES OF PRAGMATISM
347
INTRODUCTION
348
CHAPTER ONE The Methodological Spirit 78 Fallibilism
349
Pragmatic Contextualism
352
The Given A Priori and Logic
358
CHAPTER TWO The Instrumentalist Interpretation of the Structure of Knowledge 81 Logic and the Structure of Science
364

83
105
ΙΟΙ
112
CHAPTER
133
CHAPTER THREE John Dewey
165
CHAPTER FOUR C I Lewis 43 Conceptualistic Pragmatism
205
Logic and Order
207
Mind and World Order
212
Valuation as Empirical Judgment
221
Meaning and Mind
225
CHAPTER FIVE George Herbert Mead 48 The Social Point of View
232
A Problem of Materials
234
Social Behaviorism
236
Genetic Psychology and Social Theory
237
Social Gesture and Language
241
The Significant Symbol
244
Language as Gesture
246
A Schematization of Gestures and Significant Symbols
248
An Actor Prepares
250
The Discovery of the Self
252
Play Games Roles and the Generalized Other
255
The Self as I and Me
258
The Pragma of Things
261
Conclusion
264
Part Three
268
ALLIANCES AND MISALLIANCES
269
INTRODUCTION
270
F C S Schiller 62 Schiller and Pragmatism
273
The Critical Orientation
276
Humanism ButtEndForemost
283
The Private Thinker and the Postulated World
285
Psychology and Logic
292
The Critique of Logic
294
Making Truth and Reality
297
Final Reflections
301
F P Ramsey and Ludwig Wittgenstein 70 Some Missing Links
304
F P Ramsey
309
Ludwig Wittgenstein
311
CHAPTER THREE France 73 Pragmatism and Pragmatisme
314
Georges Sorel
320
Sorel and Mussolini
321
Some Historical Factors
366
Interpretations of the Theoretical Structure of Science
369
The Instrumentalist Point of View
371
Leading Principles
376
Some Critical Issues and Conclusion
380
CHAPTER THREE The Construction of Good 87 Constructing the Good
383
The Problem of Ethical Judgment
384
Ought and Is
385
A Modified Naturalistic Ethic
389
Situation Value and Valuation
390
The Origins of Valuation
393
ValuationPropositions
395
EndsMeans
398
Propositions and the Criterion of Valuation
400
Desire and the Desirable
402
Some Last Observations and Questions
409
Conclusion
412
Part Five SPECULATIONS
415
INTRODUCTION
416
CHAPTER ONE The Meaning of Pragmatism 99 The Moral Basis of Pragmatism
419
Knowledge as Valuation
423
IOI What Pragmatism Is
424
CHAPTER TWO Pragmatism and American Life 102 The Import of Some Ideas
432
The Dilemma of American Philosophy
433
Wit and Philosophy in America
435
Angelic Impulses and Predatory Lusts
437
Conclusion
446
CHAPTER THREE Conclusion 107 The Revolutionary Point of View
448
A Theory of Meaning and Action
454
Appendixes
459
ContinuityHegel and Darwin
460
The Background of Peirces Pragmatism
488
Peirce on Truth and Some References to Boole
496
Analytic and Synthetic
508
Pragmatism and the Category of Possibility
522
Epilogue
557
Bibliographical References
571
Index
591
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